What’s so great about Duke?

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Not so. Other schools have something else that gives them a unique identity. Dartmouth is a college in a rural part of Vermont. Columbia is in arguably the best city in the world. Brown appeals to a student with an artsy sensibility. Cornell is like an Ivy/Big Ten hybrid and the students are happy there.

But Penn started out like HYP, and in a major city to boot. And, over time, both the city and the university failed to keep up, and everyone knows it.

Plenty of students turn down Penn for Duke, or apply to Duke but not Penn. And the Duke students are, by far, a happier bunch. But Penn students will never be happy because the vast majority really wanted HYP (or S), and they know that their disappointment is transparent to the world. Nothing will ever make their hurt go away. Not having Wharton on campus for the grinds, or having Duke, Northwestern, or Chicago to look down on. They still went to Penn.

Lol how can we even take you seriously if you dont even know the basics about the ivies?

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Anonymous wrote:We will see what happens to the school once coach K leaves.

You serious? Bobby Hurley will take over where he left off. Won’t miss a beat.

Nope, my money is on Wojo.

Duke sucks. It is so insular. Even the people who live in Durham don’t like Duke.

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Anonymous wrote:We will see what happens to the school once coach K leaves.

You serious? Bobby Hurley will take over where he left off. Won’t miss a beat.

Nope, my money is on Wojo.

Duke sucks. It is so insular. Even the people who live in Durham don’t like Duke.

+1 for Wojo. Isn't Bobby coaching a high school somewhere?

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Anonymous wrote:I would never send a child there after the Duke Lacrosse case. Too much town and gown anger.

U know the bitch set them up?

Of course. I'm more concerned with the horrid behavior of the Gang of 88 (faculty) ruining the reputations of the young men.

+1 Alum here. Exactly why my kids aren't applying. And they are much smarter than I am.

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No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke grads tend to be very annoying. Chip on their shoulder about Duke not being an ivy. They love to trash talk Cornell, UPenn and Brown.

Everyone loves to trash talk those schools. Mostly Upper Ivy grads/wannabes.

Eeevvvver heard of it?

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Anonymous wrote:Why do so many smart rich preppy kids, from California to New Jersey to Florida, want to go to Duke?

Success begets success, so a top-ranked school attracts kids because of the ranking.

Apart from that, Duke has a nice campus (it's what you get when a tobacco/utility baron decides to copy Princeton), a distinguished faculty, comparatively warm weather, and Coach K.

I applied there, visited, and ultimately turned it down for another school. The negatives were the campus was too spread out, the frats were seriously obnoxious, and it seemed to be trying a bit too hard to overcompensate for not being an Ivy.

Wake Forest is a rich preppy school of the south.

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Nothing. Absolutely nothing.

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Anonymous wrote:Duke grads tend to be very annoying. Chip on their shoulder about Duke not being an ivy. They love to trash talk Cornell, UPenn and Brown.

Those schools are lower ivies. Nobody has a chip on their shoulder about them.

Oh please, like Duke has no chip about Penn or Columbia?! They are schools with much better departments overall, bigger names, an ivy league brand, higher endowment and higher desirability (as shown through RD yield). Get real. Maybe they are less insecure towards Brown, Dartmouth and Cornell though. But still these are ivies and Duke is not an ivy.

I know for a fact that Dukies love to trash talk Penn and Columbia. Cant imagine it is that much different for the other non-HYP ivies.

Lower Ivies. That's what they are. No sleep lost over them.

keep telling yourself that, it might make you feel better...

Lower Ivy Envy is not a thing.

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Anonymous wrote:To add to that: a lot of Duke students wanted HYPS, too, but Duke does a good job of turning its students into loyal Dukies. In comparison, Penn students are always defined by what they are not (i.e., HYPS students).

+1000

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Anonymous wrote:OP and Duke booster/ivy basher: Please enough with this asinine thread. it does nothing but reinforce the stereotype that Duke is insecure towards the ivies.

Lower Ivies excluded of course.

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

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Anonymous wrote:No one even knows that Penn is an Ivy.

Penn State is an Ivy?

One of my co-workers said her dad told her to go to Penn State instead of Penn b/c no one really knows the difference b/t the two. Wise man.

So you must have a very mediocre job then...The only people who dont know the difference between the two are unsophisticated, uneducated or semi-educated people who run in very mediocre circles. Btw those same people cannot name a single ivy past HY(P) and sure have never heard of Duke.

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Serious question - my kid has applied to both Duke and Cornell RD. I think he has a good shot of getting into both. Which one should he pick? He is a STEM kid FWIW. My gut feel is Cornell. He is not into frats or big 10 basketball.